Greetings, artists from all worlds and all realities!

Today, I thought I'd share with you again some of my creations from the last week. I hope you enjoy it!

They were made using my custom build of Disco Diffusion, a version of Stable Diffusion, photo-manipulation and digital drawing through Gimp and Inkscape, and post editing/composition in darktable.

Process:

So my process hasn't changed since last post, but it has become more involved, complicated, and overall longer. I usually draw a quick sketch or a basic drawing on Gimp of what I have in mind (very basically), then feed that to Stable Diffusion to generate more intricate versions of that initial sketch.

Once I'm satisfied with a few results, I import them into Gimp again to adjust some things, maybe change the colours, paint over a few things, do some basic photo-manipulation, add some elements/take out some elements, etc. Back into SD and repeat until I'm satisfied.

Then it's slicing time.
I usually chop my not-final result into 5 to 8 parts, and feed these slices to Disco Diffusion, at double resolution, to really add the details. That process alone takes half a day minimum to be achieved, as it takes between 45min and an hour and a half for SD to run my slices at double res.

Back into Gimp, stitching and photo-manipulation, that hasn't changed, really. Inkscape sometimes, if I need to vectorize after drawing and painting over.
Then this final result will be taken into darktable where I do my final editing and compositing, and voila!

And that's how I started bringing some of my fantasies, dreams, nightmares, and visions to life, with the help of multiple programs and software!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, or just enjoying the view, or even disliking the view!

Here is the link to my Instagram, where I publish all of my more recent creations!

https://www.instagram.com/thephilostoner/